The original repairer

With Zhang Hao's jade slip of cultivation experience and Shi Chen's already perfected shape-changing and appearance-changing skills, it would only take a day or two to get started with physiognomy.

At four quarters past the hour of You, Liang Ruyan returned to the courtyard with a gloomy face, and it was obvious that she was in a very bad mood.

After a while, except for Tuwu, everyone gathered and sat under the tree in the yard.

"Captain, Tuwu is in the process of breaking through the Qi Refining Stage. It may take two or three days to complete the foundation building." Zhang Hao said in a low voice, looking at Liang Ruyan with a sour face.

"Well, in that case, let's leave him here to build his foundation for this military mission. Now I will convey the objectives of this mission..." Liang Ruyan said after calming down.

It was already midnight when he returned to the room. Shi Chen sensed a sense of danger from the expressions of his five teammates regarding tomorrow's military affairs.

The military duty is to patrol the area within a radius of one thousand miles and three hundred miles to the north of Duhaixian City.

The mission is simple: patrol, inspect, and explore.

The mission of the reconnaissance team is of this type. They do not need to engage in direct combat, but mainly focus on detecting the enemy's movements and deployments.

It is often the most dangerous branch of the military, and it is easy to be surrounded and annihilated, with the entire team killed.

The reconnaissance tactics discussed by the three teams were simple: act together, and then work out the details based on the situation after arriving at the target location.

It only took a quarter of an hour for all the team members to vote in favor of this plan. The remaining hour was spent by each team member teaching Shi Chen battlefield reconnaissance techniques and survival rules.

Liang Ruyan's request to Shi Chen was that Shi Chen could be the first to evacuate without dragging down her comrades, without having to worry about any of her comrades, including herself.

They explained to each other the coordination of battle formations, the arrangement of formations, and some secret codes of the team.

Everything that could be taught had been taught to Shi Chen, especially the role of formation masters in the army during encounters. Everyone hoped that Shi Chen would not make any mistakes during his first battle on the battlefield, and even if he did, he would not make mistakes at critical junctures.

Shi Chen demonstrated three formations. In one breath, all three formations were set up and controlled with ease.

The first-level attack golden thunder formation, the first-level defensive earth defense formation, and the first-level auxiliary illusion formation. The three formations are controlled by Shi Chen. Within a range of a hundred feet, they complement each other and their power is no weaker than that of a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building.

What finally puzzled Shi Chen was a word from Fatty Yu.

"We've only rested for three days, and the patrol will take another two days to reach us. Furthermore, before, we only patrolled 500 miles outside the Immortal City, which took 15 days. Now, not only has the distance doubled, but the time has also doubled. A war may soon begin."

The reconnaissance distance and time have increased, and the reconnaissance missions have become more frequent. This is a sign of a counterattack.

However, there was no mention of a large number of new human cultivators in the battle reports.

Then there is only one possibility: a battle between the bosses.

The Sirens have been besieging the two northern cities for nearly a month, and most of the demon soldiers are gathered within a thousand miles outside the two immortal cities.

The demon soldiers led by the demon clan were very disorganized. Many of the gathered demon soldiers would disperse as they walked, and go everywhere to rob mortals for blood and food. If there were no mortals, they would rob livestock.

The mortal world is like purgatory. The demons are bloodthirsty. Even when there is enough blood to eat, the big demons will often devour the small demons. The situation in the places occupied by the sirens can be imagined.

Sitting in Liang Ruyan's flying boat cabin, Shi Chen was practicing the art of physiognomy. He was the only one in the cabin while the other team members were on the flying boat deck, sitting in meditation and practicing.

The flying boat is controlled by five people in turns, with a rotation every two hours, and is expected to reach the military destination in three days.

During the journey, the team encountered many sirens in the mountains, rivers, fields, and mortal cities, but they did not stop. However, some brave sirens still flew into the sky to intercept the flying boat, but were killed one by one by the team members.

A big demon with the cultivation level of Golden Core rarely goes out alone. He commands thousands to tens of thousands of demon soldiers and generals under his command. A sea demon with the cultivation level of Foundation Establishment can also command a hundred or two hundred small demons.

Many of the little demons who practice Qi cultivation need to eat blood, and some can only find it on their own.

The patrol area is three hundred miles, and there are two former human markets in the middle, which have now been occupied and destroyed by sea monsters.

There is a market town in the south called Zhongqiao Market, which was originally managed by a Qi training family. When the sea monsters launched a war, this Qi training family had retreated to Duhaixian City before the arrival of the sea monsters.

Fifty miles away from the market town, the flying boat landed and everyone got off. Fatty Yu briefly told Shi Chen about their experiences over the past three days. They encountered some small demons that were out looking for blood food. They also encountered groups of sea monsters three times, dozens or even hundreds of them, including sea monsters in the middle stage of foundation building. Whenever they encountered them, they would avoid them if possible.

The distance exceeded 500 miles from Duhaixian City, and the density of sea monsters gradually increased. It was now within the range that military affairs needed to scout. Every few dozen miles, there was a foundation-building monster with hundreds or thousands of monster troops.

The mission of the third team is to complete the reconnaissance of the situation within the mission area of 300 miles within one month, including the number of demon soldiers, the number of demon beasts at the foundation-building and golden elixir levels, their occupied areas, and their movements.

The six people hid their tracks and moved cautiously towards Zhongqiaofang City. There were almost no mortals in the mountainous areas and wild areas, only towering trees, birds, beasts, fish and insects.

On the way, they found six or seven lone sirens, whose cultivation was only in the middle stage of Qi Refining. Zeng Tieniu quickly solved the problem alone.

Zhang Hao used the art of physiognomy through a sea monster. Its appearance, aura, and cultivation level were exactly the same as those of the little monster's corpse on the ground.

A small success in the art of physiognomy can indeed conceal the truth from the world. As long as the spiritual power is not much stronger, it is difficult to detect the art of physiognomy.

Shi Chen also used the art of physiognomy, but compared with Zhang Hao's small achievements, there was still a big gap.

First of all, the details of the mimicry are relatively rough, and many places are simulated very vaguely, such as the cochlea, armpit, posterior orifice, soles of the feet, etc., which cannot be fully replicated.

Shi Chen's spiritual sense is very strong. At least he feels that no one in the third team can compare with his spiritual sense. After nearly five years of tempering the soul, Shi Chen's spiritual sense has not reached the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator, but at least it can now be compared with the late Golden Core stage.

The simulation of the aura and cultivation level of the physiognomy technique was quite successful. Except for Zhang Hao who also practiced this technique, the other team members present could not tell the difference.

Shi Chen was already very satisfied that the entry-level physiognomy technique could achieve such an effect. Unless a sea monster with Nascent Soul cultivation was targeting him, under normal circumstances, a Nascent Soul monster would not pay attention to monsters in the early stages of Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment.

After collecting the corpse of the monster, Zhang Hao took Shi Chen to explore about five miles ahead of the team. Both of them used the art of recognizing monsters and thought that all the monsters they met were of the same kind. Some monsters with lower cultivation than them took the initiative to follow them after seeing them moving together. There was no one behind them, and the team members who followed them would deal with them.

When they encounter a monster with foundation-building cultivation, it will roar at the two of them and want to recruit it as its subordinate. The two of them will take the opportunity to blend in with the monster's soldiers, and when the teammates behind them get nearby, Shi Chen will activate the formation to cover all the sea monsters.

Killing sea monsters will earn you military merits, and spying on intelligence will also earn you military merits. Compared with the past, the rate of increase in military merits this time is a bit rapid. In just half a month, everyone has received more than 2,000 military merits. If this continues, you can earn more than 5,000 military merits in one month of mission time.